Hello, gorgeous

  Happy Friday!!!  It's time for a new challenge from the Cut It Up Challenge Blog.  This week, the challenge is: Out In the Country

And our fabulous sponsor is:

STAMPlorations

Here is my card for your inspiration:

As I was looking through my STAMPlorations products to see what I wanted to use, I realized that I have quite a number of their products, most of them unused.  This row of butterflies stamp was one of those items and as soon as I saw it, I knew I wanted to use it!!  At first it might seem like this doesn't fit the "Out in the Country" theme, but you definitely see a lot more butterflies out in the country than you do in more urban areas.  I started by die cutting the stitched panel out of white card stock and stamping my image with black ink.  Then I took some small ink cubes in a range of purples and created an ombre, water color look.  I started with the lightest ink, smooshed it onto a small clear stamping block and spritzed with some water.  Then I smooshed the block onto the stamped panel mostly over the first butterfly.  I did the same steps with the remaining three shades of purple.  I stamped "hello" with black ink and then came the magic.  I die cut the word "gorgeous" directly out of the center of my stamped image.  Then I die cut the same word out of three more layers of white card stock and one out of a dark purple (which you really don't end up seeing, but it was worth a try to bring in a little more color).  I adhered them all together and then glued it back into the negative space in my stamped panel.  Unfortunately, I lost the pieces from the loops of the "g's" so the look isn't exactly what it should be.  But it still turned out really cool.  I finished the card off with several small purple pearls to add some interest.  You can see the dimension of the word "gorgeous" better in the photo below.

I had originally thought to do rainbow colors on the butterflies, but I really like how it looks with the monochromatic color scheme.  I may have to give the rainbow a try another time to see how it turns out.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you will hop over to the Cut It Up blog for the full details of the challenge and to see what the rest of the Design Team has created. 

Supplies:

Stamps: STAMPlorations "Butterfly Row" and "Wreaths and Flowers"

Dies: STAMPlorations "Stitched Rectangles" and "gorgeous"

Challenges:

Cards Galore Challenges #99--anything goes

Love To Craft Challenge Blog #68--anything goes

Through the Purple Haze #192--CAS

Unicorn Challenge #76--pearls/bling

Die Cut Divas--anything goes

Crafty Calendar--anything goes

Sheepski Designs #67--for the girlz

We Love Stamping--for a lady (or girl)

Love To Scrap Challenge Blog #41--anything goes

NBUS #28--never before used schtuff (Butterfly Row had yet to come out of it's packaging--so sad)

Crafting Happiness #63--anything goes

Incy Wincy Designs--die cut or punch

A Gem of a Challenge--anything goes

Word Art Wednesday #544--anything goes with an uplifting sentiment

Creative Fingers Challenge #231--anything goes

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #182--anything goes

Simon Says Stamp Monday--texture (with the pearls, raised up die cut word and the die cut stitching)

Try Stampin' on Tuesday #556--die cuts AND/OR sketch

Penny's Challenge #521--anything goes

Double D--monochromatic

Krafty Chicks #612--CAS